Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness requires problems

- Hollingworth, H. L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English